The Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. Leigh shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid : where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates the connections between Augustus and Aeneas, Lucan produces a savagely republican anti- Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death ...
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The Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. Leigh shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid : where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates the connections between Augustus and Aeneas, Lucan produces a savagely republican anti- Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Otherwise, a good used copy. ix, 366 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Pharsalus, Battle of (Farsala, Greece: 48 B.C. ) in literature; War and literature; Rome (Empire); Epic poetry, Latin; Pharsalia (Lucan); ISBN: 0198150679. ISBN/EAN: 9780198150671. Add. Inventory No: 231101HAD2-1104.
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